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'JrRE DtolsA A YEAR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. [INVARIABLY IN ADVACE.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1869.NO1
EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, "
A~ Newberry C. a,
-90 2mf!7. l. L43hEIEEE $
ERI,B, 4 Pr ARXX, INCURRENCY t
ON PROVISIONS. (
- .asamce. t
-6iees,, 7uTlte i, Ob 't- a
Cois a an; m tsISOS ae.vu private in
obar*ed aeL I i
The Appropriation Bill.
I
*ection 1. That the following i
Si0i ,7d they are hereby, ap- r
for, the payment of the i1
ofcers and eXpenses of :p
tegovernment, that is to n
say: For esalaries.-For the Gov
; for the Secretary ii
o t e State, $3,00; for the Pri- c
vate Secretary of the Governor, f<
$ ,;A A;jutant and Inspec
tor Generfl, $2,500 ;for the Assis- d
ltdbift Jtanit and Inspector-Gen- o
r ,k 11 farthe Conptroller- n
P3,O; for the Treasurer c
; for the Chief G
CTesrer of the State,
41,800; for the Aiditor of the s;
100- -for Superintendent fi
; for theChief A
for the Chief tl
Justice of the Supreme Court, s1
$4,000; for the two Associate Jus- fi
tiee, $7 ;_for the eight Circuit o
J ; for the eight Cir
OAt itore,$8:00; for the three a
Chancellors,-to January 1, 1869, b
$1,500; for the Attorney-General,. fi
* WM1;*rIhA syiG*Eneral's tl
Clerk, $1,000; for the Clerk of the n
Supreme Court, $1,500; for the v
State erter, $1,500; for the
' &Btate House, $300; h
p tendent of the le
a Penitentiary, $2,- st
S C iLiabsarian, $400; r:
Ib the three Health Officers, $3,- u]
00; for the ounty Auditors, $31,- p
;_.t=:-two- Watchmen of the al
Sta$aHouse and Grounds, $900; A
-of salary duo fudge a4
Thomas W Glover, $1,000. pi
Sec.-2. Executive Department c:
*~Idr dtingsifund of the Gov
$5,00; out-of which shall
be paid the expenses of the Bureau of
of Agricultural Statistics, to be r<
n the order of the Gov- o1
the contingent fuikd of ui
otreasury, $1,500 ; for fire-proof. p1
safe for the Tressury, $1,000; for ia
contiagest fund of the Comptrol- w
JOr.ra eesa 00-foreontingent hi
tOP of the State, of
. noontineant fund of the W
- aIspector-General, it
e64istingentr fund of' P
1 of ]!ducation, tai
$75N; for th* 'contingent fund of ti
the C}pf Costsble, $500; for the y
* o.ta fee f the Legisative ti
Library, $200. The above appro-e
priatipas to be @f4a*n upon the lh
~d~of theheads of tht seyeral ti
enitasts, if so m=66k be neces- i
t. uOiciary 1epartment:Ia
besfor the Su
e6~akr of te Chief'us
tie~j r'eaotingenit expenses Yi I
C~ogt, under section
da o8eptember, -1868, $2,000. -
Ordiary:Civil Expen- '
- orconingnt:undaccount, ~
~~roit-ofnndsc halb paid a'
.~~~opueeof.fix notices, assess
ii~k,and other forms of '
- . State, tobe paid by the t
ron the warrant of the
ejQmproller-General: Provided,~
aQsec~ounts for-cost on tax exe-.
~to.returned awuNa bona shall hi
aidi oint of this appriation ;
ocr the pay fQnty.Sebool Comn-d
oggg,10sifso mu.ch be
pasey;-kr aup of lAinatie
*~$I6,; & ir eeiency in"
'~p~stionl of'1867, foi~ the sup
- d Lnatic asylum, $4,500; for P
- 4as on of~the deaf; .dumb andP
i~,d~a400, to bedrawn on the
e ofthe Governor; for defi
encmy in. appropriation of 1867, '
teetreeaa of South Carolina
* "6SIiton(giry, 12,300, and for con
tinning the construction of South S
-Carolina Penitentiary, and other I
expensesKineidental thereto, $80,
30&tfso much be necessary, to be
oi,i n the order of the GIovernor ; ]'
A uarantine expenses, $3,O00; i
aceoua to be approved by the F
Gegernor, and paid on the war- r(
tigrOf the Comptroller-General; Ci
for transportation .and clothes for "]
dischatgdo on viets from the South e:
TCOarolina Penitentiary, $1,500: for 5s
p.tmanent printing, $1L0O0,. if so a]
much be necessary, to be paid by ti
the treasurer upon the order of d
the comptroller-General ;for the i
Catawha Indians, -$1,200, to be b
paid upon the order of the Govt g
aeror,
$ee. 5. For aytnent of Stat# "
olice, $20,000, if so much be ne
essary.
Sec. 6. Educational Department:
'or the support of free schoolst
50,000, in addition -to the amount
aised by the capitation tax, to be
pportioned to the several Coun
ies according to their representa
ion in the 4ower branch of the
reneral Assembly ; for the pay of
be Professors in the University
f South Carolina, $22,000, if so
iuch be necessary ; for one De
ionstrator, $1,000; for a Librarian,
'reasurer and Secretary of the
'acuity, $1,500; for the Bursar and
[arshal, $500; for insurance and
epairs of the University build.
igs, $1,800; all of which shall be
aid upon the order of the Gover
or.
Sec. 7. For the payment of the
terest on the public debt ac
rued since the same was last
)unded, $500,000.
Sec. 8. Military expenses: To
efray the expenses of enrollment,
rganization and equipment of the
ilitia, $20,000, if so much be ne
assary, to be paid on order of the
overnor.
Sec.9. For the payment of the
laries of the commission to codi
r the laws of the State, 610,500.
,l contingent expenses connected
erewith and allowed by law
all be paid out of the contingent
ind of the State, upon the order
r the Comptroller-General.
See. 10. That all taxes assessed
rid payable under this Act shall
e paid in the following kind of
inds, viz.: The bills receivable of
io State, United States currency,
ational bank notes, gold and sil
er coin.
Sec. 11 The Auditor of State is
ereby authorized and directed to
vy, and cause to be collected, a
ifcient per centum of taxes to
dse a necessary amount of money,
on the assessed valuation of the
roperty of the State, to meet the
)propriations enumerated in this
et : Provided. There sball not be
sessed -or collected, under the
5ovisions of this Act, an amount
reeding one million dollars.
The President makes no secret
his determination not to make
movals except for some cause
her than a difference in politics
4il the Tenure-of-office law is re
aled. He has so -informed a
rge number of senators and
embefs who have called upon
m for the purpose of having
oxions political opponents re
oved. The members of the Cab
et are a unit in supporting the
resident in his desire to have
te Tenure-of-office act repealed,
id lose no opportunity in making
eir sentiments known. Said
ie A ttorney-General to a senator
esterday : "Sir, we cannot run
e ad.ministration successfully ex
~pt that law is repealed." The
st few days have, without ques
on, witnessed a decided change
thie minds of Senators with re
ard to the obnoxious measure,
ad it is a general opinion that
hen the subject next comes up
Sthe Senate the vote will be a
ery large one inl favor of its re
*al.
OPosD To WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
"'A negro preacher of the Gospel,
mbtless a little inspired, on being
~ked if he was in favor of woman
frage, with great pomp : 'No,
r. I1 is posed to dat de woman
as de first to commit sin, sar, I
11 you dat de damsel demanded
a head of John de Babtist, Bar.
tell yen dat whien God made man,
:e gave de man power over all
ving, and made de man boss
rer de woman, sar. I tell you
at God let de man name ebry
ing~, and de man named de wo
an Eve, because she was the
othei- of all Evil, I tell yoa sar,
will never do sar, for I am a
eacher, and my father was a
rea'cher before me, and I am a
tter preacher than he ever dare
n I tell you what, sar, dat I
iderstand de Bible a good deal
good deal better before I could
~ad, dan my old missus ever did
r, I tell you it will never do to
t dose women vote."
From a dialogue reported in
[ia Vie Parisienne," it appears
tat the necessity of classifying
rech novels has at last been
icognized. A lady entering a
rculating library asks for a novels
[don't know how to tell you
cactly the kind I want," she
ys. "Oh, I think we shall be
>le to suit you." "I mean some
mng lively," explains the inten
ing reader ; "the sort of book
lat would not be pirecisely suita
e for the library of a young
ir." "Marie," cries the keeper
r the book shop to her assistant,
onvel for a woman af thirty-five."
The Seed Time and Planting
of Crops.
The writer of this communica
tion, has presumed to warn plan
ters about neglecting the culture
of corn and other grains, yes
every thing like food and provis
ion, for dotnestic use. A wise
course ought to dictate that cot
ton production should be a secon
dary consideration with the far
mer, who desires to see the South
rise once more to prosperity, and
permanent importance.
In the history of all political
organizations, their rule and sway
must -terminate sooner or later,
and a reasonable deduction leaves
-us to hope, that the oppression
and persecution, and mad follies
of Radicalism, which means Puri
tan control of the country, is to
close some day ; recent develop
ments, we think, point to the ap
pearance of gangrene on the body ]
politic.
The industrial avocations of
twelve millions of people in the
Southern States have been over
turned, and a large portion of its
useful labor been destroyed by
frenzied legislation in Congress
A change of front has therefore
become a necessity, and will have
to be adopted, if an element of
labor is to supersede that which
is dwindling, and must die out.
Much has been written and said
relative to emigrants being in
duced to come to the Cotton
States. The climate and appre
hension of a want of healthfulness
is not the difficulty, for we main
tain that experience has shown as
great a degree of health and lon
gevity to foreigners in the South
as is found in the more Northern
States ; but all emigrants natural
ly enquire what they will find to
eat in Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina. If the answer is
truthfully given, that the corn.
flour, pork and bacon is brought .
from the West, many thousand
miles off, he must be a bold man
who will venture his family to
come on the promise-of being fed
on cotton. Cotton seed coffee 1
we have drank for a considerable
time. During the late war, it 1
was very good, but we eonfess a I
preference for Rio or Java.
The once fertile and prolific cot
ton lands on the seaboard have 1
deteriorated vastly in value, and I
have become impoverished by an
ill-advised system of culture, ap- E
parently without forethought or I
judgmert, vain boasters of superi- r
or industry to Southerners; and
even our planters r'ushed into cot.
ton cultivation mostly on bor
rowed money, and at any rate of
interest charged. Large crops of
cotton and a fortune in one or I
two years was the speculative
stimulant. Corn, peas, potatoes t
and such things, to support man
and beast, were too insignificant 1
to be worked, when 75 eents to 1
$1 per pound could be realized onC
a big erop of cotton; but, alas!
adverse causes have left them
without cotton, corn, or any thing
else, and many have lost their
lands ; and, at this time, a state of
poverty, if not destitution, exists 4
among whites and blacks truly
lamentable, with credit to where. t
Many are compelled, this season,
to contract with dissolute and t
idle freedmen to work two days I
weekly, giving as a compensation
land to .cultivate and lodgings. 4
Planters elsewhere, take warning! I
There is no fiction in the picture 1
presented. Every practical far- I
mer in this country is aware of I
the power he can hold over man
and animals with well filled corn
cribs; food tames as well as har
monizes, and will command labor
invariably, and drive the plough
and harrow to advantage. With 1
plenty of corn, potatoes, &c., the
cotton you may make will not beC
forced on a drooping market, and
sold for less than its value.
In the New Orleans Evening 1
Picayune, of the 4th ultimo, there
is an admirable article under the t
caption of "Plant Corn," and i'eit- I
erates the advice given by Gen
eral Jackson to his soldiers when
disbanding the volunteers, after
one of his battles, telling them to I
go home and "Plant Coi-n."
When time permits I will en
deavor to shoiw that the South I
will have to embark extensively 1
in manufacturing pursuits, and a 1
general diversification of labor. ~
Puritan presumption, and their I
teachers, are successfully cultiva- C
ting idlers, thieves, and crime in ~
every form, among Africa's race.
The retrogression of this species t
of labor is self evidet. , .
L. M.W. '
Marriage niakes a marn aVid woman
one; but the trouble is to tell which of
Manufacturing Interests o f
the State.
riN VAUCLUSE MAXU1ACTURIkG COMPANY.
GRANITEVILLE, S. C.,
March -, 1869.
To the Editors of-the Courier.-As
our State is making great strides
of progress in the race of prosper
ity, it may not be amiss to keep
you informed of the various enter
prises that are being undertaken
throughout the State, and with
this view, I propose to give you
a brief sketch of the prospects
and progress of an enterprise with
which you are probably familiar,
and which has been lately com
menced in this section :
It is proposed in a short time,
o open books of subscription to
the Vaucluse Manufacturing Com
pany-the capital to be $500,000,
sixty per cent. of which will be
paid in when the whole stock is ta
ken, and the balance, forty per
ent., will be called in, in four in
3talments within twelve months.
Df this capital it is proposed to
3pend $400,000 in the erection of a
till of 16,000 spindles in fine
ocds, or 14,000 spindles in heavy
fabrics.
There is at Vaucluse a magnifi
eent water-power of 48 feet fall,
and 300 horse power, the banks
>f which are so steep, that a dam
>f less than 600 feet and a canal
:f 300 feet can secure it. In 1859
there was erected a stone dam,
which was half completed, at a
3ost of between $3,000 and $4,000,
and which stands now. It can be
,ompleted now, it is said, at a cost
>f $20,000, including the cost of
lriving wheels.
The tract consists of 2,404 acres
>f well timbered land, out of
which it is confidently asserted,
1,000,000 feet of good lumber can
)e had, which from the situation
)f the land will not have to be
auled more tha a mile from any
)oint to thecrek on whichit can
e rafted to the saw mill. There
-e now on the tract over sixty
ruses, containing 200 or more
ooms, with a large dwelling and
iecessary out-buildings for a Su
)erintendent, and besides a num
er of eotton warehouses, which
ire available for workshops.
The Columbiaand Augusta Rail
-oad passes directly through the
)ace, affording a vent North via
corfblk or via Savannah. The
;outh Carolina Railroad is near
>y and the Port Royal Road will,
1o doubt, have its branch to Gran
teville, tapping the Columbia and
ugusta Railroad, which will con
ect at Lott's with the road from
Tinety-six depot on the Green
ille road, affording another out
et to the coast.
With these great advantages as
o water power and locality, and
ith the improvements on the'
>lace, much confidence is felt in
,he success of the enterprise, in
~ase the capital is raised. There
s an abundance of labor, and every
ni started in this section will as
ist in forming a labor market,
~qual to New England, besides be
ng a public institution, giving
~mployment to the poor, and ad
ling to the productive capacity of
,he State.
The charter has been granted
,he company by the Legislature,
he enterprise is in the hands of
~entlemen who are thoroughly
~onversant with the business. A
arge amount of the stock has been
romised, and in fine there is a
-easonable hope that the impor
ant enterprise will be pushed for
rardrapidly to completion.
SATIS.
THE RUsH POR OFFIcE.-It is
cessary to be an eye-witness to
e sound now transpiring in this
~apital to form an adequate con
eption of the scramble for office
vhich is now going on. "The
ldest in habitant" cannot remem
er the time when there were so
nany people anxious to serve
heir country in all sorts of ca
>acities. Hlotels, first-class board
ng-ouses, second-class boarding
iouses and the cheapest boarding
iouses are all crowded with as
irants, from the patriot who
vants the governorship ot a ter
itory or the appointment of su
ervisor of a district, down to the
nore humble individual, who will
>e content with an appointment
is mssenger in one of the de
artments, a door-keeper in the
pitol, or an officer on the capi
ol police force. The great bulk
f these office-seekers come fromi
he West. New England has fur
ished but few so far, .and the
umbers froth the Middle States
re even less.
A New Hampshire lady of 80 is cutting
., tbj,d s.t of teeth.
Mark Twain's Latest.
AVRELIA'S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN.
The facts in the following ease
came to me by letter from a young
lady, who lives in the beautiful
City of San Jose. Sheis perfectly
unknown to me, and simply signs
herself "Aurelia Maria," which
may possibly be a fictitious name.
But no matter, the poor girl is al
most heart-broken by the misfor
tunes she has undergone, and so
confused by the conflicting coun
sels of mis-guided friends and in
sidious enemies, that she does not
know what course to pursuein or
der to extricate herself from the
web of difficnlties in which she is
almost hopelessly involved. In
this dilemma, she turns to me for
help, and supplicates for my gui
dance and instruction, with a mov
ing eloquence that would touch
the heart of a statue. Hear her
sad story :
She says that when she was six
teen, she first met and loved, with
all the devotion of a passionate
nature, a 'young man from New
Jersey, named Williamson Breck
enridge Caruthers, who was only
six years her senior. They were
engaged with the free consent of
their friends and relatives, and for
a time it seemed as if their career
was destined to be characterized
by an immunity from sorrow be
yond the usual lot of humanity.
But at last the tide of fortune
turned. Young Caruthers became
infected with the small-pox of the
most virulent type, and when he
recovered from his illness, his face
was pitted like a waffle mould,
and his comeliness gone forever.
Aurelia thought to break off the
engagement first, but pity for her
unfortunate lover, caused her to
postpone the marriage for a sea
son, and give another trial.
The very day before the wed
ding was to have taken place,
Breckenridge, while absorbed in
watching the fiight of a balloon,
walked into a well, fractured one
of his legs. and it had to be taken
off above the knee. Again Aure
lia was moved to break the engage
ment, but again love triumphed,
and she set the day forward and
gave him another chance to re
form.
And again misfortune overtook
the unhappy youth. He lost one
arm by the premature discharge
of a Fourth of July cannon, and
within three m-nths got the other
pulled out by a carding machine.
Aurelia's heart was almost crushed
by these latter calamities. She
could not but be deeply grieved to
see her lover passing from her by
piece-meal, feeling as she did, that
e could not last forever, under
this disastrous procss of reduc
tion-yet knowing of no wiay to
stop its dreadful career, and in her
despair, she almost regretedJ,.(like
brokers who hold on and lose), that
she had not taken him at first, be
fore he had suffered such an alarm
ing depreciation. Still, her brav
ery bore her up.,and she resolved,
to bear with her friend's unnatural
disposition yet a little longer.
Again the wedding day ap
proached, and again disappoint
ment overshadowed it ; Caruthers
fell ill with erysipelas and lost the
use of one of his eyes entirely.
The friends and relatives of the
bride considering that she had al
ready put up with more than
could be reasonably expected of
her, now came forward and in
sisted-that the match should be
broken off; but after wavering
awhile, Aurelia, with that noble
and generous spirit which did her
credit, said that she had reflected
calmly on the matter, and could
not discover that Breckenridge
was to blame.
*So she extended the time once
more, and he broke his other leg.
It was a sad day for the poor
girl, when she saw the surgeons
reverently bear away the saws,
whose uses she had learned by
previous experience, and her heart
told her the bitter truth that some
more of her lover had gone. She
felt thazt the field of her affections
was g. ~jmore and more cir
eumsri ery day, but once
more.she frowned down her rela
tives and renewed her betrothal.
Shortly before the time set for
the nuptials another disaster oc
urred. There was but one man
scalped by the Owen River Indi
a,ns last year. That man was
Williamson Brecken ridge C a r u
thers, of New Jersey. He was
urrying home with happiness in
his heart, when he lost his hair
forever, and in that hour of bit
terness he alnmost cursed the mis
taken mercy that had spared his
bea.
.t astn Anrelia is in serions pet
plexity as to what she ought t
do. She still loves her Brecker
ridge, she !writes with true w<
manly feeling-still loves what i
left of him-but her parents ar
bitterly opposed to the matcl
because he had no property, an
is disabled from working, and sb
has not sufficient means to sul
port both comfortably. "Noi
what sball she do ? she asks wit
painful and anxious solicitude.
It is a delicate question ; it i
one which involves the lifelon
happiness of a woman, and the
of nearly two thirds of a man, an
I feel that it would be assumin
too great a responsibility to d
more than make a mere sugget
tion in the case. How would i
do to build to him? If Aureli
can afford the expense, let he
furnish her mutilated lover wit
wooden arms and legs, and a gia5
eye and a wig, and give him anc
ther show ; give him 90 days witi
out grace, and if he does not brea]
his neck in the meantime, marr
him and take the chances. I
does not seem to me that there i
much risk, any way, Aurelia, be
cause if he sticks to his propcnsit;
fo; damaging himself every tim
he sees a good opportunity hi
next experiment is bound to fir
ish him, and then you are a
right, you know, married or sir
gle.
If married, the wooden legs an
such other valuables as he ma
possess revert to -the widow, an
you see you sustain no actual los
save the cherished fragment of
noble but unfortunate husbanc
who honestly strived to do righ1
but whose extraordinary instinct
were against him. Try it, Marii
I have thought the matter ove
carefully and well ; it is the onl:
chance I see for you. It woul
have been a happy conceit on th
part of Caruthers if he had starte
with his neck and broken the
first ; but since he has seen fit t
choose a different policy and'strin
himself out as long as possible,
do not think we ought to npbrai
him for it if he liked it. We d
the best we can under the circun
stances, and try not to feel exa:
perated at him.
Put Him Through.
Not long since a brace of lover
from the interior entered an ul
town photograph saloon, an
wanted their pictures taken. Th
lady gave precedence to her swai
who, she said, "had to be tue
fist and real natural."
He brushed up his hair, gav
his necktie a twist or two. aske
his girl if~ his collar was 0. K., an
placed himself in the operator
ebair, where he assumed the phy:
iogPnomical characteristics of
poor mortal in the dentist's hand:
and about to part with one of hi
teeth.
"Now look purty," begged th
lady, casting one of her Ianguish
ing faces.
The picture was taken. Whel
produced, it reminded the girl, a
she expressed it, 'just how Jos]
looked when he got over the mes
sles;" and as this was 'not an er
in her lover's history particulari
worthy of commemoration sh
insisted that "he should se
again."
He obeyed, and she attended hin
to the chair.
"Josh," said she, "just lool
kinder smilin' and kinder don't.
The poor fellow tri.ed to follov
the indefinite injunction.
"La !" said she, "you look kinde
all puckered up.''
One direction followed another
but with as little succes~s. A
last, growing impatient and des
perate, she resolved to try an ex
periment, which she considere<
infallible, and exclaimed:
"I don't keer if there~is folk;
round."
She enjoined the, operator t<
stand ready at the camera. Shi
thenm set in her fellow's lap, and
throwing her arms around hi:
eck, managed to cast a shower o
faxen ringlets as a screen betweem
the artist and the proceedings
which wvhere betrayed by sound:
which revealed what was taking
aking place. When the billing
and cooing had lasted long enougl
o produce the desired effect, th<
cnning girl leaped from Josh'f
ap, clapped her hands, an.d criec
o the astonished artist:
"Now you've got him-put him
trough."
A contemporay thinks the rain astrangi
ower. It keeps thousands sway front
hurch on Sunday, but wont deter- i
single man from attending to his businesi
n week days.
Eleven marriages and twelve divorcs3,
n March, is the highly encouraging re
or from a Western toin.
o va 4uneanona-niu1angu mm
The Washington correspondent of the
p Baltimore Gazette *ties:
s "The inaugaration ball was a brilliant
success financially, and many inquisldve
e individuals are asking 'who ocketed the
money? It was annotnced that MieS
d hundred tickets would be sold, and Ir
e rangethents were made for this number
- of hats and cloaks. One gentleme
y ceived a ticket for his hat numbeted
b 2550, and when he call-d for it there
no hat for him, and he left the bvz
with a lady's lace veil, which hi-bA
s picked up, tied about his ears. Htn
I dreds left the building hatless and coat
t less, and the inquiry to-day is not only
d who got the money, but who gatbe ed
. the harvest in the way of hats and costs.
3 Some parties have evidently made a
'good thing' of it, and those who w"e
the victims must remember the old lot
t that they who dance must pay
a fiddler"'
r What is a history worth? The et
b respondents of all the papers differ etei
s about the details of the clothes Grant
wore at his inauguration. The corrper
pondent of the New York Herald says'he
wore corn-colored kid gloves: the ebra
respondent of the World says be wire
r canary-colored kid gloves; the corns'
t pondent of the Times says he wore straw
s colored kid gloves, the correspondenttf
- the Tribune gives no information on the
point-probably because the new coo'
etitutional amendment forbids all dis
crimination of color. Again, the Woc'
- says that at his inauguration Grant bad
- on a "shirt pierced by three spiral small
l nobbed gold studs;" but the Heri S
- that "not a single orrament of jewelry
appeared about his persto, not eveugeld
3 shirt buttons, ind "upon his shirt bosq
nothing glittered brighter than
buttons." Now, if such points
accurately settled and precisely stted.
h how shall we give credence to repot!
a about weightier matters ?
, ECCLESIASTICAL RA4IT.-O
S of the strangest scenes which .
. been witnessed in this .erook
r world, for a long time, must bare
V been the M. E. Church Confeaego
d in Alexandria. The chief matte
0 of discussion in thatreverend bedy
d was the success they bed it
.t with in wresting the ehbrch-bud
0 ings~and property out ofthe 'WihW
of the Southern Methodists ad
the hope was expressed that in pe
d great time they would be
o make a clean sweep in the S Wa
IState of West Virginia andthb'r.h
out the Old Dominion. An assisto
bly of reverend divines pattriing
their prayers and psakas oE;on
gratulation over their eabef"n
the unrighteous acquisition of
property not their own.
d PRACTCAL R Eco-sTRcnoN.- The ft'
e berry (S. C.) Herald states that within a
n week twenty. more intmigrauW-e
k arrived in that town and goi tb11p
on the farms in the ncigbborhoe *d
Sthat more are immediately expecled, It
dis the same with other towns noteely.ln
South Carolina, but threughnet othe
S farm laborers to go South. lit afew
&- years they will possess plaattidas of
a their own. A'i for the ownin efthe
farms in the South they can sell mint at
Sgreat advantage at the high prioes feel
estate is ruling now- Go gonth and
lire in almost princely style, *ith6ut
Sundergoing half the drudgery afld Ishbe
- bestowed upon your o.;n rddeky Itoma
steads to realhze a scanty livelihoo&
[New York Heiamd.
RAsOF A DYERTISIXC 1* & Ew E.-e
Complaints are sometimes md by
buisiness men as to charges made ist
Sadvertising. The following are the-ntin
i in the city of New York.
3 In the New York Tribune, 25 tents
t per line for each insertion. S8petal noiti
ces, 5th page, 40 cents pet line, for each
inser tion. Fancy types and cuts are
charged double rates for space oestpled.
In the Weekly Tribune, the rates are $3
per lire for each insertion, and $8
line for inserting announceinent.
r other New York papers charge thip sme
rates with -the exception of the lieraid4
r' which is about 50 pr cent higher.: The
business men of 1 ew York aIIl sd*ettiss
extensively and consider even these rates
'9 cheap.
- Thbe radical papers afiestitig . -
-Listen ! "Just as Grant 'ise the
Holy Bible, yesterday, the sun
burst through the clouds in glo
Srious effulgence, and both the man
and the orb were Idaudlyocheered
by the people." Every tire. a
radical President has been inaug
urated, old Sol has thus been rutn
Slessly driven on a "burst." The
thin isjus asabsurd in its way
as Louis Napoleon's tame eagle.
"Fellow-citizens," said a stump orator,
"we have the beat country in the world,
and the best Government. No people
on the face of the globe enjoy more
privileges than we do. We bare the
liberty of the press- without onerous
despo~tism. What, fellow-citizens, ia
more desirable than this? Can youi want
anything iftore, my countrymen? '-Yes!"
shouted one ot the mob, "I want a pull
at that u-e flask sticking oqt cf your
coat peaket,"
A GOOD Sros.-It is a good sign, says
the Macon Journal &.Messenger, to se
the energy displayed by our maufactu
ring enterprises. The Newton Fatr
-was burned- to the ground note eut
since, but new machiner has slirudy
been purchased nad will besoon be t